Poverty caused by illness and returning to poverty due to illness are the most prominent poverty-causing factors. The data shows that by the end of 20 15, the proportion of rural poor people in China who are poor due to illness and return to poverty due to illness has reached 44. 1%. In 20 16, China started the health poverty alleviation project, and proposed that by 2020, everyone in poverty-stricken areas will enjoy basic medical and health services, and the serious and serious diseases of the rural poor will be treated and guaranteed in time, and the service capacity and accessibility will be significantly improved.
According to Wang Peian, deputy director of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, in order to make the poor people afford the disease, China has carried out centralized treatment of serious diseases. The first batch of nine serious diseases, including childhood leukemia, congenital heart disease and end-stage renal disease, have been treated 1 1.5 million people. Among the 3.6 million poor patients with serious diseases and chronic diseases treated by classification,1440,000 has been cured, with an improvement of 735,000, and 380,000 have been transferred to long-term rehabilitation treatment.